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Miniatures Adventure => Back of Beyond => Topic started by: Adam on 25 June 2009, 07:33:29 PM
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWE3y5-_Bgc&feature=channel_page
Thought you lot might be interested. It starts 4 minutes into the video and if you click HQ underneath the film it goes into a much higher quality. You can see the whole film if you look at the users other videos.
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Thanks
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Nice hats!! :D
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Nice find. I did not know of this movie.
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Excellant !!!! ;D :-*
I was looking for this film since its issue.
Now, I know I can see the film, even if it is in 12 parts of 10 minutes ...
many many thanks
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fantastic!
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Great find, thanks for sharing !
Björn
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To bad so few of these Russian and Chinese mastodon war movies make it even to the European dvd market.
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To bad so few of these Russian and Chinese mastodon war movies make it even to the European dvd market.
So ...few? Hang on, how many are there then? Any other good titles?
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To bad so few of these Russian and Chinese mastodon war movies make it even to the European dvd market.
So ...few? Hang on, how many are there then? Any other good titles?
Will Bailie posted a cracking film in the VSF board. It's a sort of detective mystery set during the Russo-Turkish war. Here's the link:
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=10520.msg121072#msg121072
It's also worth having a look in the user's other videos for that Admiral Kolchak one. There are absolutely shedloads of great Russian films in there including War and Peace with it's epic Napoleonic battle sequences.
I found a couple of battle scenes from an old Russian film, 'Quiet flows the Don', about Cossacks during WW1 and the RCW. The film itself looks quite good but I haven't had time to watch it as it's three films in one. These I found flicking through:
WW1 Cossacks charge Austro-Hungarian infantry in 1914 (from about 30 seconds in)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoZnRQDWLlw&feature=channel_page
Russian attack on German positions later in the war (from about 8 minutes in, spread over two parts):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhCY5Hlu3t0&feature=channel_page
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnHiVIFR7X0&feature=channel_page
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Thanks Adam - I'll check these 8) 8)
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I found Admiral easily enough on Ebay. Its a dreadful film though. There are lots of other Russian Civil War films available on Ebay from time to time, films like "At Home Among Strangers" (excellent) which has a Michael Caine lookalike as the bandit chief, or "White Sun of the Desert" a cult film in Russia but piss poor in my opinion. Look them up on Wikipedia or Google and you'll find quite a few. In Russia the DVDs are often available for no money but prices here vary enormously. Most have terrible plots and dialogue but some great action scenes - even Admiral which more than makes up in the latter's case for thre angst filled looks of longing that make up most of the film. You'll wish they had thown his body into the ice an hour earlier!
Also have a look at "The Good, the Bad and the Weird" a Korean BofB bandit film set in 1930s Manchuria and now available on DVD in UK (saw an ad for it on TV the other night). Its an absolute cracker of a film and is now being used as teaching material in collage courses, so innovative is the direction. The train holdup sequence is simply amazing for the length and quality of the camera action.
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Hopefully, though doubtfully, The Good, the Bad and the Weird would be available here in Canada.
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In the Admiral Kolchak film, do we get to see the cute lead actress without her clothes on? Not that I'm a pervert or anything bad like that, of course.
That could make up for a half-hour of bad dialogue in and of itself.
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Also checkout Commissar too! The story is about a female commissar during the civil war.
I've all of them as discussed above less "At Home among Stangers" which I've not seen.
All are worthy to be placed on the shelves at home and watched from time to time.
Helen
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That looks a cracking film :D
cheers
James
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If anyone ever gets a hold of a copy of Strangers/Friends with subtitles could they please explain the plot to me. I understand the main thrust, gold taken, wrongly accused, escape, join bandits, recapture gold, hugs and kisses all round but there are huge bits of the film - ie the bits with dialogue - that completely escape me. Who is the character with the broken teeth? How does the gold end up in a briefcase with a never before seen (I don't think) character armed with a Lewis gun on a bluff above the river just where our intrepid hero and his sidekick/hostage/captive appear on their raft? What is it that the bandit chief (the Michael Caine lookalike) is saying to all those people as he eats his boiled eggs and drinks his wine?
The costumes in this film are a godsend to anyone trying to paint RCW bandits - the bandit horde contain a wonderful array of uniform and civilian garb - there is even a sailor still in his uniform in the band. The red cavalry unit too is an excellent source of uniform and colour information.
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I was surfing on youtube and found some more videos.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2r6scy_kTc&feature=related
Found this. Scenes from a film called Gentleman Officers including a few battle scenes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xqm_jN6QQio&feature=related
Video made using scene from a historical series (The Fall of the Empire) showing Russians going over the top in the Great War.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yo-qAkjeH6U
Germans bombard Russian fortress in the Great War. From the same series.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfUaw0BfaZA&feature=related
German Zeppelins and planes attack Russian positions.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi5rmutQXIw&feature=related
Red cavalry capture a pilot in a rather unique fashion. From the Elusive Revengers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tntA_4IoxbE&feature=related
Russian civil war video made using bits and bobs from old Soviet cartoons.
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In the Admiral Kolchak film, do we get to see the cute lead actress without her clothes on? Not that I'm a pervert or anything bad like that, of course.
That could make up for a half-hour of bad dialogue in and of itself.
No such luck. I had hoped for some skin shots as most films nowadays have the requisite naked chick scenes. Damn Russia for being so cold - everyone had their clothes on all the time. The closest you get to undressing is seeing Kolchak in his long underwear. Not my cup of tea at all.
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German Biplane vs Russian Infantry. Its on 1:38 minutes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxmkhckI_RA
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nice clips, thx for sharing
if I was in an ukrainian village entrenched with machineguns I'd start running too when attacked by cossacks with lances and sabres - since as a german I'd be expected to do so in a russian movie...
oh damn, austro-hungarians! now i have an identity crisis...
oh yes, and the swashbuckling hero in the red shirt was of course spiffing . I almost expected him to start singing...
well there is a nice train crash, the ladies look cute and the germans can't even wear their pickelhaube the right way - but they are germans after all, right? ;)
oh, yes, no chance for nude scenes in the Kolchak movie, I think they are not even kissing...
But I heard they are re-editing for international release, so there might be a reshooting without textiles ;)
oh Yes, dame Helen is right
watch that Comissar movie and forget of all that propagandistic crap, inspiring uniforms or not...
here is part 1/10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Gq4YymKvxs&feature=related
miss this masterpiece at Your own peril
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Wow, that biplane dropping giant darts :o
Cruel but effective and especially not good for the russian soldiers moral :?
(ps. from which movie or serie is the darts biplane attack scene?)
greets, the belgian